Carver SD/A-490T ?

[Magic_Physicist]

Have any of you replaced that rubber band yourself?

Mine quit opening and closing the tray and wouldn't play the CD that was trapped inside.

I removed the cover to rescue my Led Zeppelin III cd and I could see that tiny belt that was like an old rubber band all stretched out and weak.

So these days I just use my TX-11 to listen to anything.

[TNRabbit]

It's a well-known issue. Some have replaced with an elastic hair band, others take the belt to the hardware store & obtain a suitable rubber O-ring. No reason to spend more than a few cents to fix it.

[mbskeam]

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pics here...

[Magic_Physicist]

Yeah I thought I saw that mentioned here before so maybe that would be worth trying.

Why do you suppose it wouldn't play?

Same reason.

With the cover on and connected I would see the the time running but no sound and then tried with the cover off just to see if the disc was spinning and a few times it would start and then stop and then once it did continue spinning but at that time I didn't have it connected to the C-19

All of this happened at once.......one day it played and the next I could'nt get the drawer to slide open.

Funny thing when I bought this in 1991 the drawer was stuck and I brought it back to Lynwood and they fixed it and it worked for the next 20 years.

Seems like a long time but I expect great equiptment to run forever

I need this to run so when I am home alone I can have some minutes of peace.

[Magic_Physicist]

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12285

pics here...

Ah hell,thanks neighbor.....you posted that as I was typing and thinking to myself.......I thought I saw that here before but it works better when I have one of you to link me up

[Magic_Physicist]

Btw when I had the cover off I did notice the 2 Yugo tubes were lit up.

I haven't had headphones that worked for decades now and don't remember having a digital optical cable either......I see one coaxial below it (rca?)

[jjptkd]

If you use the digital outputs you bypass the tube buffer, might as well play the disc off of your CD-rom.

[mbskeam]

is the disc fully seated, or a bad disk?
hopefully this is the case

[Magic_Physicist]

is the disc fully seated, or a bad disk?
hopefully this is the case

Yes fully seated and I have never had a CD fail before.

The main thing is that in all these decades I have never let another human touch my Carver/Phase Linear collection or the CD's,vinyl, or cassette's

I baby all of them and they all look brand new.

I will give it another test to play with the cover off and connected to the C-19 to see if it is spinning and loaded as it should be.

I hope to get sound and it looks like replacing that old rubber band should be fairly easy.

[Magic_Physicist]

If you use the digital outputs you bypass the tube buffer, might as well play the disc off of your CD-rom.

LMAO....don't worry jjptkd I was just going to use that for a test on the output.

All 6 of my computers run 24/7 doing data processing for the Cern LHC and the Einstein Project not to play music

[TNRabbit]

Most CD players are designed so they will not work with the cover off (they are afraid someone will blind themself on the laser~)....

[kingman]

I'm pretty sure I had my 490t playing with the top cover off. I know I played my TLM-3600 without the top.